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ENGLISH BIRD-LIFE 



Lesser Black-back Gulls 



The Fames will be recalled as the home of St. Cuthbert 

 and the scene of Grace Darling's heroism and a connecting 

 historical note is supplied by one of the bird wardens, Jack 

 Darling, a nephew of the light-keeper's famous daughter. 



Bass Rock, too, has its history as a prison for Dissenters 

 and as the one Scottish stronghold not captured by the 

 Cromwellians, but to the bird student it is known chiefly as 

 the original home, in scientific nomenclature at any rate, of 

 the Gannet or Solan Goose, which Linnaeus named Sula bas- 

 sana, under the impression that this splendid bird inhabited 

 only the Bass. As a matter of fact, it is found in only about 

 a dozen islets in Great Britain, and two in America. 



Ten thousand Gannets, it is said, nest on the Bass to-day 

 and so tame are they that the visitor who does not mind 

 looking down 450 feet of sheer cliff, may readily climb 



